Now is the time to learn about the farm share of the U.S. food dollar.
According to a recent USDA report, U.S. farm establishments received 14.9 cents per dollar spent on domestically produced food in 2022 as compensation for farm commodity production.
This portion, called the “farm share,” is a decrease of 0.3 cents from a revised 15.2 cents in 2021. The farm share covers operating expenses as well as input costs from non-farm establishments.
The remaining portion of the food dollar, known as the marketing share, covers the costs of getting domestically produced food from farms to points of purchase, including costs related to transporting, processing and selling to consumers.
One of the factors behind the long-term downward trend in the farm share is an increasing proportion of spending on food away from home.
Farm establishments receive a lower portion of dollars spent on food away from home because of the added costs of preparing and serving meals.
The USDA Economic Research Service uses input-output analysis to calculate the farm and marketing shares of a food dollar, which is an average of all domestic expenditures on U.S. food.
Source : Lancaster Farming